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...used to strange props showing up in his movies. After all, there was the questionable, er, hair gel that several actors sported in There's Something About Mary and the man-eating crocodile that finished off his character in Wild Things. But neither of those compare to the pesky monkeys that tormented Dillon during the filming of his directorial debut, City of Ghosts, a crime drama set mostly in Cambodia and scheduled to open on April 25 in the U.S. "We had to smuggle in a monkey from Thailand for some scenes, because our Cambodian monkey was untrained...
...aside the freedom fries. Forget about cheese-eating, surrender-monkey epithets. Even take your attention away from the war for a moment. France has a problem that doesn’t have anything to do with Iraq, but it’s time that someone mentions it. The French justice system is inept when it comes to enforcing the rule of law—even and especially in its own prisons...
Decorum was shattered at the Arab summit in Doha last week when Izzat Ibrahim, the Iraqi envoy, lashed out at Kuwaiti diplomat Mohammed Sabah al-Salem: "Shut up, you monkey ... Curse be upon your mustache." Those are fighting words in a region where men have been cultivating whiskers since the Ottoman Empire. More than a badge of manhood, the mustache is practically a totem: to seal a deal Iraqis literally swear by them; to compliment a man they say "an eagle could land on his mustache." During the Iraq-Iran war, facial hair was an extension of the military uniform...
...that WMAP has answered every question. Nobody knows what dark matter and dark energy are, and the theory of inflation, while strengthened, is far from proved. Beyond that, there are some strange measurements in WMAP's data that might be mere statistical flukes--or might point to some major monkey wrench that could still throw cosmology into turmoil. "We should know better after we get in more data," says Charles Bennett of the Goddard Space Flight Center, who is the WMAP team leader...
...morning Alan Shepard climbed into Freedom 7. Always a skeptic about the technical claims of engineers and scientists, Kennedy glumly watched Shepard's launch with his hands jammed in his pockets, expecting the worst. Yet Shepard went smoothly in and out of space in 15 minutes and got the monkey off Kennedy's back...